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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain, but perhaps a corruption of *sūtribāiulus (“cobbler’s porter”) — originally denoting a cobbler’s assistant — from sūtor (“cobbler”) + bāiulus (“porter”); for the reduction of the combining stem of sūtor from sūtōr- to sūtr-, compare sūtrīnus and sūtrīx (regular in the latter).
Pronunciation
Noun
sūtriballus m (genitive sūtriballī); second declension
- (Late Latin) a mender of old shoes, a cobbler
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “sūtrīballus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sūtriballus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,530/3.